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Change is good. It keeps us fresh, brings on new ideas, shakes things up. We’ve been seeing a bit of it around the paperboard packaging industry lately with continued mergers and acquisitions. Now, after 99 years, Paperboard Packaging has evolved into an online edition, delivered to your inbox in this on-the-go world we now live in.

BRUSSELS—Arriving as CEO of Newark Recycled Paperboard Solutions (formerly Newark Group) in August 2011, Frank Papa knew he had his work cut out for him. Founded in 1912, the company was approaching its centennial but was floundering. In 2010, it had to declare bankruptcy.

BRUSSELS, Sept. 4, 2014 (PPI Europe) -The Department of the Environment (DOE) of Northern Ireland published the first set of official carrier bag levy statistics covering the period from April 8, 2013 to March 31, 2014 in late August.

BRUSSELS, Aug. 28, 2014 (PPI Europe) -Germany's Heidelberger Druckmaschinen (Heidelberg), one of the leading printing machinery suppliers in the world, has concluded another step in its ongoing restructuring process.

HARTSVILLE, SC, Aug. 25, 2014 (Globe Newswire) - Sonoco, one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Weidenhammer Packaging Group, Europe's leading provider of composite cans along with composite drums and rigid plastic containers, for €286 million, or approximately $383 million, in cash. The final consideration is subject to a normal adjustment of net working capital.